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“No. But Gus might have or Ike even. I’m not sure.”

“Okay, thanks.”

Anne was already looking up Jack Wolfson of Glasgow on social media sites. “No way.”

“What?” Maisie looked at Anne’s phone and gave a little gasp. “That’s Jude Springer.”

“Well, apparently, he’s also known as Jack Wolfson,” Anne said. “I told you he wasn’t to be trusted.”

“I know.” Maisie shook her head.

Robert friended Bruce and Stuart on Facebook. Once they accepted his friend requests, he friended Jack Wolfson to Anne’s and Maisie’s surprise.

“What are you doing?” Anne asked, sounding alarmed.

“If he accepts the friend request, we can see his pictures and friends’ names, as long as he allows friends to see them. By adding Bruce and Stuart, Jack will know some of his friends are my friends.” It wasn’t long before Robert’s friend request was accepted.

They looked through Jack’s friend list and photographs. “Chelsea Bowers is one of his friends. She’s not listed as his girlfriend though. The same one who Gus and he were fighting over?” Maisie asked.

“Probably,” Anne said.

They saw a photo of Chelsea at a club and one of Bruce and Stuart at the same club. Ike and Gus could be seen in the background, Gus smiling and talking to Chelsea.

“There are no pictures of Jack or mentions of him wearing a splint. These were taken a week before Gus’s death.” Maisie frowned. “If Jude—Jackmurdered Gus, he wouldhave smelled that I’d been with Gus that night. Then if Chelsea was the next woman Gus saw—”

“That would give Jack motivation to do something about it,” Robert said. “We need to find Chelsea and make sure Jack isn’t coming after you, since you were also with Gus that night.”

***

After breakfast, Robert and William cleaned up the kitchen, and then Anne and Maisie began taking orders from their guests for breakfast.

When they returned from the main dining room to start preparing breakfast for the guests, Robert said, “If you don’t need our help, we’re going to review the security videos, since I haven’t actually seen them yet.”

“Aye, and if you would like, you can look at the animal photos I took and pick out your favorites so I can order the prints.” Maisie set up her laptop on the coffee table in her and Anne’s living room. “If you need anything else, just let me know. If you want anything from the kitchen, feel free to help yourselves.”

“Thanks,” Robert said.

They started looking at the security videos first. “The guy with the hoodie has one of those drugstore splints on his wrist,” Robert said. “They’re easy to remove and put back on.”

William looked at the video. “You’re right. Go back to where we first see Gus.”

Robert backed up the video. Gus didn’t have a splint on. “Okay, the guy wearing the charcoal-gray hoodie is definitely a different guy. But if he’s our murderer, how could he strangle Gus if he had an injured wrist?”

“What if it was a ruse? Like Ted Bundy, the American serial killer, who wore a cast on his arm, pretending to be hurt,” William said. “He was one of the cases we studied when we were going through the police academy training in Texas.”

“Yeah, he made the news all over the world. So this guy’s wearing a wrist splint and size-ten boots.” Robert paused the security video. “Look, those are Derby black safety boots.”

“Okay, go back and look at Gus’s shoes and we’ll see if we can recognize what he’s wearing.”

“There. Gus is wearing brown hiking boots and blue jeans. The other guy is wearing black trousers.” Of course, Gus could have changed his pants and shoes, but the wrist splint the one man was wearing made Robert believe they were two different individuals.

They looked at the videos several more times but didn’t see anything new. Then Robert pulled up the animal photos Maisie had taken. He laughed when he saw the ones of Mittens trying to catch the toy mouse. Those were his favorites.

William laughed too. “Maisie takes great photos. I love these of Mittens.”

“She does.” Robert and William picked all the ones they liked the best, writing down the numbers.

When they were finished with the photographs, theladies were clearing the tables, so Robert and William got to work cleaning the dishes, which made Anne and Maisie smile.